

“Hopefully, knowing her since 1984, I got something through osmosis. “I have been elbow to elbow with Pat in many trenches,” she says. The AJLT designer met Field when she first moved to New York in the 1980s, and Field gave Rogers a job in her now legendary store.

“She set the DNA for this show and she gave Danny and me the roadmap,” Rogers tells during the last few days of production (Santiago was on set). Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago are both proteges of Field and worked alongside her on SATC. Oscar-nominated costume designer Patricia Field won an Emmy for her work on the original HBO series, and while she isn’t returning for AJLT, her successors are no strangers to Carrie’s world. Now Carrie Bradshaw is back in the SATC reboot And Just Like That… and so is her ongoing romance with the shoe brand. Even after two decades, it is impossible to think of Manolo Blahnik without conjuring an image of his biggest fan splurging her cash on a new pair of his heels. Viewers were just as drawn to Carrie’s closet as they were to brunch hangouts, Cosmos, and the on-again-off-again relationship with Big (Chris Noth). Since then, Sex and the City has changed the way audiences interact with contemporary costume design. More than 20 years have passed since onlookers were first taken aback by the image of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) walking down a Manhattan street in a tutu.
